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Originally Posted by -King-
Because it is. This only counting new money thing is disingenuous as hell to me. If you give someone $500, and then $1000, and then $1000 you don't get to say you're paying them $1000 a year on average.
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I think there are a couple things to mention here:
1/ The Chiefs *do* contractually have CJ on the books this year for a 19.5mm base salary. There's a value to that asset that we have at a below market rate. And we got that value - and planned the entire roster around it - because of the contract we signed him to in 2020. If we just, say, re-write this year of the contract to bring it up to market at ~24.5mm, we've given up the value of that asset.
2/ Not to mention the fact that when the deal was designed in the first place, we knew given the structure of the contract that next year would have essentially a poison pill franchise tag value that would benefit CJ tremendously as it would make it prohibitively difficult to keep him.